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The
Vitellianists, however, though beaten, did not remain inactive. They brought
up reinforcements and attacked the enemy, who felt themselves secure, and
whose vigilance was relaxed by success. The sentinels were cut down, the
camp stormed, and the panic reached the ships, till, as the alarm gradually
subsided, they again assumed the offensive under the protection of some
neighbouring heights which they had occupied. A terrible slaughter ensued,
and the prefects of the Tungrian cohorts, after having long maintained their
line unbroken, fell beneath a shower of missiles. The Othonianists, however,
did not achieve a bloodless victory, as the enemy's cavalry wheeled round,
and cut off some who had imprudently prolonged the pursuit. And then, as if
a sort of armistice had been concluded to provide against any sudden panic
that the cavalry of the one party or the fleet of the other might cause, the
Vitellianists retreated to Antipolis, a town of Gallia Narbonensis, the Othonianists to Albigaunum, in Upper
Liguria.